equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.

_Russian Territory_

6 THE EVACUATION of all Russian territory and such a settlement of
all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest
cooperation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her
an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent
determination of her own political development and national policy
and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free
nations under institutions of her own choosing, and, more than a
welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may
herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations
in the months to come will be the acid test of their good-will, of
their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own
interests and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy.

_Restoration of Belgium_

7 BELGIUM, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and
restored without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she
enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act
will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the
nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined
for the government of their relations with one another. Without
this healing act the whole structure and validity of international
law is forever impaired.

_Alsace-Lorraine to France_

8 ALL FRENCH territory should be freed and the invaded portions
restored and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the
matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the
world for nearly fifty years, should be righted in order that peace
may once more be made secure in the interest of all.

_New Frontiers for Italy_

9 A READJUSTMENT of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along
clearly recognizable lines of nationality.

_Autonomy in Austria-Hungary_

10 THE PEOPLES of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we
wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest
opportunity of autonomous development.

_Rumania, Serbia and Montenegro_

11 RUMANIA, SERBIA and MONTENEGRO should be evacuated; occupied
territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the
sea, and the relations of the several Balkan States